Diets DON'T Work!!!!!!
I love Weight Watcher’s new commercials. It’s true, diets, as the term is understood by the vast majority - 1200-1400 calories a day, don’t work.
I lost 72lbs doing Weight Watchers back in the 90s. Yup. It certainly worked for me. I was eating a very high processed carb diet and averaging just under - 2lbs a week. Not bad!!
How that happened I really don’t know. I did a lot of cardio - I fairly quickly worked up from barely able to do 10 minutes to 60 minutes a day, 7 days a week and wanting to kill someone if I missed my “workout”.
My staple daily foods were a full bag of “lite” microwave popcorn a day, 3 servings of multi-(processed so they don’t count) “grain” Cheerios, 2 bananas, 4 oz of some sort of meat protein - mostly chicken, pork, beef, broccoli or canned veggies, skim milk, and margarine for fat. On Fridays I might have a slice or two of pizza and two margaritas.
In other words, I ate something like 90% garbage. And I still lost weight. At a fairly good clip. How? How how how? I suppose it had to do with my age, I was in my mid-late twenties. I suppose at that time my metabolism wasn’t as screwed up as it was the last time I tried Weight Watchers nearly two years ago.
Last night I came across my Weight Watchers point tracker. I decided to figure out how many points I typically eat. I should preface though that back when I started in March of 2006 I weighed 213.6lbs. I was allowed to eat 26 points a day plus an extra 35 a week. I have my food logs. Typically that 26 points worked out to be 1300 calories. Over the 8 weeks I have logged I consumed a total of 65 extra points for 3250 calories. So on average, doing Weight Watchers I was consuming about 1360 calories a day.
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